MORGAN
,
THOMAS
(
1769
-
1851
),
navy chaplain
;
b.
6 Dec. 1769
, son of
Philip
Morgan
of
Devynnock
,
Brecknock
— see the article
G. E. F.
Morgan
. He was at
Christ College school
under
David
Griffith
(
1726
-
1816
) (q.v.)
, and went to
Wadham
and
Jesus
,
Oxford
, graduating in
1790
(
D.D.
1824
). He took orders, and after a breakdown in health became a
chaplain in the royal navy
. He was at the
‘First of June’ (1794)
, in which he was wounded. In
1798
he was at
Spithead
when the mutiny broke out; his sympathies were with the men, and his influence upon them helped to restore order; in the same year (
21 April
) he was in the battle off
Ushant
. He was
chaplain
and
secretary
to
admiral
Cotton
from
1799 to 1807
, then
chaplain in various naval hospitals
, and finally (from
1817
)
chaplain of the dockyard
at
Portsmouth
, where he d.
22 Nov. 1851
. He held livings as well: the
perpetual curacy
of
Talley
and
Llansadwrn, Carms.
, the
rectory
of
Llanfaches, Mon.
(to which he gave communionplate), and the
vicariate
of
King's Langley, Herts.
On the death of his only son (
1844
), he sold his estates in
Brecknock
.
Bibliography:
-
Theophilus Jones
,
History of the County of
Brecknock
, 3rd ed., iv, 138-40;
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
